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Seasonal Succession of Four Acartia Copepods (Copepoda, Calanoida) in Okkirai Bay, Sanriku, Northern Japan Plankton Benthos Res 7(4): 188–194, 2012 Plankton & Benthos Research © The Plankton Society of Japan Seasonal succession of four Acartia copepods (Copepoda, Calanoida) in Okkirai Bay, Sanriku, northern Japan YUICHIRO YAMADA*, ATSUSHI KOBIYAMA & TAKEHIKO OGATA School of Marine Biosciences, Kitasato University, 1–15–1 Kitasato, Minami-ku, Sagamihara 252–0329, Japan Received 17 April 2012; Accepted 4 September 2012 Abstract: Seasonal changes in abundance of four neritic Acartia species (A. hudsonica, A. omorii, A. longiremis and A. steueri), including identifiable copepodid stages, were investigated in the inner reaches of Okkirai Bay, Sanriku, northern Japan, to elucidate their seasonal succession patterns. Samples were collected monthly at intervals from Au- gust 2007 to July 2009 by vertical hauls of a NORPAC net of 100 μm mesh aperture. For identification of morphologi- cally allied A. omorii and A. hudsonica, the dimensional differences between them were statistically analyzed for the stages of C4 to C6. The dominant species were A. longiremis in the colder season and A. steueri in the warmer sea- son. A. longiremis and A. omorii appeared from early spring (February or March) to summer with numerical peaks in April. These April peaks were considered to result from immigration from outside the bay with intrusions of Oyashio Current water. A. steueri increased during the summer with a peak in September, then decreased until December or January, and disappeared for two or three months from April, when they were probably only present as diapausing eggs. A. hudsonica occurred from early spring to mid-summer as in A. omorii but with higher abundances in summer than in spring, though the seasonal abundances varied somewhat between years. These results suggest that tempera- ture, determining reproductive activity (and production of diapausing eggs in A. steueri), and intrusions of Oyashio water are important environmental factors determining seasonal succession of acartiid copepods in the bay. Key words: Acartia, copepods, Oyashio water, Sanriku, seasonal succession 1976, A. longiremis (Lilljeborg, 1853) and A. steueri Introduction Smirnov, 1936 commonly inhabit in the inlet waters Acartia spp. are typical calanoid copepods that occur in (Terazaki 1980, Uye 1982, Ueda 1986b, Saito & Taguchi coastal and inlet waters across the world from boreal to 1996, Seki & Shimizu 1997). However, information on tropical regions (Bradford 1976, Mauchline 1998). They their seasonal succession is still not enough in northern are major copepods in these waters and their numbers Japan. In the present study, we investigated the seasonal sometimes reach more than 20,000 ind. m－3 (e.g. Onoue et changes in abundances of acartiid copepods, including im- al. 2006). They are important not only as consumers of mature copepodids, for two years in Okkirai Bay, a small phytoplankton and microzooplankton (Putland & Iverson inlet on the Rias coast of the Sanriku area, northern Japan, 2007) but also as prey for fish larvae (Seki & Shimizu and discussed the relationship between their seasonal oc- 1997). Thus, acartiid copepods are key organisms to link currence and the environmental factors. the primary producers and the secondary consumers in coastal and inlet waters (Putland & Iverson 2007). In tem- Materials and Methods perate waters of Japan, seasonal changes in the geographi- cal distribution and community structure of Acartia spe- Field sampling cies are well documented (Ueda 1987, Uye et al. 2000). In the coastal areas of Tohoku and Hokkaido in northern Field sampling was carried out almost every month for Japan, A. hudsonica Pinhey, 1926, A. omorii Bradford, two years from August 2007 to July 2009 at an inner sta- tion of Okkirai Bay, which faces the northwestern Pacific * Corresponding author: Yuichiro Yamada; E-mail, yyamada@kitasato- Ocean (Fig. 1). The water depth at the sampling site ranged u.ac.jp Seasonal succession of four Acartia species 189 Table 1. List of sampling date, volume of the water filtered, and aliquot of sample examined. Volume of Aliquot Year Date the water filtered examined (m3) 2007 30 Aug 0.82 1/1 19 Sep 2.49 1/4 17 Oct 2.03 1/4 16 Nov 2.10 1/1 20 Dec 2.42 1/1 2008 15 Jan 2.10 1/1 Fig. 1. Sampling site in Okkirai Bay, Sanriku, northern Japan. 19 Feb 2.03 1/1 25 Mar 2.23 1/1 17 Apr 1.37 1/2 from 17 to 19 m depending on the tide. Zooplankton sam- 15 May 1.82 1/1 ples were collected by vertical hauls of a NORPAC net 20 Jun 1.16 1/2 (mouth opening 45 cm, mesh size 100 μm) from the near- 22 Jul 1.44 1/1 bottom to the surface, and were preserved in 5% buffered 18 Aug 4.44 1/2 formalin seawater immediately after sampling. The 16 Sep 2.30 1/4 amount of water filtered was measured with a flow meter 17 Oct 2.51 1/1 (5571-A, Rigosha Co., Ltd., Japan) set at the mouth of the 18 Nov 2.61 1/2 net; the filtered volumes are presented in Table 1. Vertical 15 Dec 2.30 1/1 2009 28 Jan 1.84 1/1 profiles of temperature, salinity, and chlorophyll a concen- 12 Feb 2.09 1/2 tration were determined for each 0.1 m using a CTD sys- 13 Mar 2.34 1/1 tem equipped with a chlorophyll fluorescence sensor 17 Apr 0.81 1/4 (ACL200-PDK, JFE Alec Co., Ltd., Japan). 23 May 1.87 1/1 13 Jun 0.96 1/1 Developmental stage analysis and species identification 16 Jul 1.85 1/1 All copepodids and adults of Acartia spp. were sorted, under a dissecting microscope from the entire samples, or 1/2 or 1/4 aliquots (Table 1) when too many acartiid cope- 1986b). However, these diagnostic characters cannot be pods were collected. The sorted copepods were then sepa- used for identification of immature copepods and are rated into nine groups according to the ontogenetic stages sometimes difficult to observe without dissection, even in (C1–C6) and sexes (female and male of C4–C6) following adult copepods. Accordingly we classified them into the Sabatini (1990). Since no morphological characteristics en- two species by prosome length, which is known to be abling the species to be differentiated could be found in larger in A. omorii than in A. hudsonica (Ueda 1986b). To C1, they were not classified into species. In C2 and higher test the criteria of length for separating the species, all of stages, A. steueri could be distinguished from other acar- these C4–C6 individuals were photographed using a digi- tiid copepods by the presence of rostral filaments, which tal camera equipped on a microscope, and their prosome were absent in the other three species. As for the other lengths were measured to the nearest 0.01 mm using three species, no species-specific morphologies enabling ImageJ® software (NIH, USA). The results showed that the us to distinguish the species from each other were ob- prosome length distribution was apparently bimodal in served in either C2 or C3, and they were counted without every stage and sex (Fig. 2) with boundaries at 0.85 mm species discrimination. Acartia longiremis could be identi- for C6 females and 0.79 mm for C6 males. Three hundred fied by having spinules along the posterodorsal margins of and twenty seven individuals of C6 females (150 for the the urosomites in C4 and higher stages. larger mode and 177 for the smaller mode) and 129 individ- Since acartiid copepods identifiable to species other uals of C6 males (76 for the larger mode and 53 for the than the present four species did not occur in our samples, smaller mode) were examined for the diagnostic characters C4 and higher stages without rostral filaments and/or uro- used in the identification of each species. The individual somal spinules could be identified as either A. omorii or A. numbers of A. omorii and A. hudsonica were 145 and 5 for hudsonica. The two species can be distinguished by the the larger mode, and 8 and 169 for the smaller mode in C6 length/width ratio of the genital double somite of adult fe- females. For C6 males, larger and small modes were deter- males (<1.1 for A. omorii and ≥1.1 for A. hudsonica) and by mined as A. omorii and A. hudsonca without exception. To the number of convex surfaces in the inner lobe of the determine the boundary between the species in both sexes, third segment of the fifth right leg of adult males (2 for A. a linear discriminant (Goebel et al. 2007) calculated with omorii and 1 for A. hudsonica) (Bradford 1976, Ueda the Mulcel® software program (OMS Publishing Inc.) re- 190 Y. YAMADA et al. Fig. 2. Prosome length distribution of all C4–C6 (adult) copepods of Acartia omorii and A. hudsonica collected from Okki- rai Bay from April 2007 to July 2009. Arrows indicate the boundary lengths calculated by the linear discriminant function analysis. vealed that A. omorii and A. hudsonica could be classified with 96.7 and 99.4% probability, respectively, with a boundary at 0.85 mm for C6 females, and both at 100% probability at 0.79 mm for C6 males. Although the size dis- tributions of the two species overlapped each other in some cases, the number of individuals beyond the boundary be- tween the modes was considered negligible compared with the total number individuals in each mode. Results Water temperature increased from March to September Fig. 3. Seasonal changes in temperature, salinity, and chloro- with the minimum temperature of 4.4°C in March 2008 phyll a concentration in Okkirai Bay.
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